Category Archives: LDAP

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is a small, fast TCP/IP protocol used for exchanging data with a Directory Server.

ldapmodify: be careful with attribute options

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

Clients must include the attribute options when using an attribute name following a mod-spec. Consider the following LDIF: # wrong dn: cn=test,c=us changetype: modify replace: your-attribute-name your-attribute-name;binary: binary-stuff your-attribute-name must contain the option (binary in this case). Here is the … Continue reading →

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LDAP: Using parallel-update for concurrent multiple updates

Posted on December 10, 2012 by

For applying a small number of changes, ldapmodify is satisfactory. For a large number of changes, parallel-update has the capability of applying multiple changes simultaneously using an operator-provided number of threads. The following example uses 1024 threads to apply 1,000,000 … Continue reading →

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LDAP: Using authrate to measure authentication performance

Posted on December 9, 2012 by

Use the authrate command line tool to measure authentication performance of a directory server. The example below illustrates how to execute searches and binds against an LDAP directory server. The example: searches and binds against random entries in the range … Continue reading →

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LDAP: Example of Processing Time Histogram

Posted on December 7, 2012 by

The UnboundID Directory Server provides a breakdown of LDAP operations that been processed by the server. Below is an example of the processing time histogram from the directory server monitor: The following ldapsearch example shows how to retrieve information about … Continue reading →

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LDAP: Authentication Best Practices

Posted on November 16, 2012 by

LDAP: Authentication Best Practices is now available (but still under construction).

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